Engineering Manager II
TomTom
Administration
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Posted on Oct 22, 2024
What you'll do
- Team Leadership: Lead and manage up to 10-15 software engineers, fostering professional growth and ensuring a healthy team dynamic.
- Operational Excellence: Identify and solve complex problems, guiding team members to enhance product quality and operational efficiency.
- Hands-On Involvement: Actively participate in the technical aspects of projects, providing hands-on support in coding, testing, and problem-solving as needed to ensure successful delivery.
- Platform Integration: Manage and integrate multiple customer/partner platforms with TomTom SDKs and APIs to ensure robust functionality and alignment with client requirements.
- Problem Solving: Identify and address complex issues, guiding team members through effective and practical solutions.
- Agile Practices: Drive the adoption of agile methodologies within the team, ensuring that agile principles are effectively implemented to enhance collaboration, transparency, and iterative development.
- Best Practices: Implement industry best practices to enhance the quality of products and processes.
- Mentorship: Train and develop junior staff, facilitating their professional growth.
- Technical Guidance: Provide expertise and direction in complex scenarios, supporting employees and stakeholders.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them without adding complexity.
- Product Delivery: Own the long-term systems/product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Performance Management: Oversee team performance and career development, enhancing the overall experience for team members.
- Stakeholder Communication: Work closely with Program Managers, Product Managers, and Technical Product Managers to align on requirements and prioritize tasks effectively.
- Metrics Utilization: Use metrics to improve customer experience and software quality.
What you'll need
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years in a software management role with proven experience managing multiple teams and driving operational excellence.
- Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with geospatial tools and techniques, including developing SDKs and APIs.
- Decision Making: Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a data-driven approach to leadership.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written abilities to inspire and resolve conflicts.
- People Management: Passionate about coaching and managing teams with a hands-on approach.
- Team Collaboration: Comfortable working in a geographically distributed environment. of Geospatial Tools and techniques
- Able to analyze data using appropriate methods, interpret results, and draw meaningful insights to support decision-making.
- Possess moderate ability to process and analyze data, using statistical techniques to identify trends and patterns, and create more advanced visualizations to communicate insights
- Exceptional mastery of verbal and written communication, the ability to inspire, motivate, and connect deeply with others, and the skill to resolve conflicts and facilitate meaningful dialogue.
- Passion for people management and coaching
- Willingness to own your work end-to-end and embrace other aspects of our Leadership Foundation
- You should be comfortable working as a part of a geographically distributed team that prefers writing over virtual meetings.
- Ability to write and speak English clearly and concisely.
What's nice to have
- Product Uncertainty: Experience in navigating high uncertainty in product requirements.
- Startup Experience: Background in a startup or involvement in launching new products.
What we offer
A competitive compensation package, of course.
Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.
Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.
Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!
Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.
Meet your team
We're the Automotive Systems Product Unit. We deliver innovative solutions to leading automakers in the global automotive industry. Together with your team, you will develop these solutions from conception to completion, finding where you can make the most impact to improve the lives of millions of drivers.
At TomTom...
You’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.
Work with a team of 3,700 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.
After you apply
Our recruitment team will work hard to give you a meaningful experience throughout your journey with us, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews all the way through onboarding. To find out more about our application process, check out our hiring FAQs.
TomTom is an equal opportunity employer
TomTom is where you can find your place in the world. Every day we welcome, nurture and celebrate differences. Why? Because your uniqueness is what makes you, you. No matter your culture or background, you’ll find your impact at TomTom. Research also shows that sometimes women and underrepresented communities can be hesitant to apply for positions unless they believe they meet 100% of the criteria. If you can relate to this, please know that we’d love to hear from you.
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